Category Archives: Hardware

Drowned my Mouse – Autopsy + Repair

Posted on June 28, 2010 by dale

This afternoon I drowned my mouse with a cup of tea and killed it. The mouse was a Microsoft Wireless 4000 Notebook Optical Mouse which I’ve had for over 2 years and liked a lot… Electronics + tea don’t mix As … Continue reading →

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Yellow Dots – Follow on about the Xerox story.

Posted on June 18, 2010 by dale

After yesterdays post about Xerox making copies of documents for the CIA during the cold war a friend sent me a link to this site (SeeingYellow). For those of you who don’t know about this there is a conspiracy theory … Continue reading →

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On Demand Book Printer

Posted on May 11, 2010 by dale

I found this via MakeZine but I think its one of the most awesome things I’ve ever seen. It’s a standard Laser printer and what looks like a Canon Inkjet printer combined with a fancy bit of mechanics to hold, … Continue reading →

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Super Secret Project Pt 2

Posted on December 22, 2009 by dale

As I explained in Part 1, I’ve been working on a super secret project (Christmas present for my wife). Don’t worry my wife hardly ever reads this site so I doubt she’ll read all this and anyway she’s unlikely to … Continue reading →

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SGI personal Supercomputer

Posted on September 30, 2009 by dale

SGI, previously (or better) known as Silicon Graphics Incoporated have released a “personal” supercomputer. It can go up to 80 cores with up to 1 Terabyte of RAM. I can think of plenty of uses for this, although I’m guessing … Continue reading →

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Howto Debug an odd problem – “Load Datalogic Scanner XML Settings Failure!”

Posted on September 4, 2009 by dale

I had an odd problem today with a USB barcode scanner and its OPOS driver. The scanner in question is a DataLogic 2200VS USB scanner and I’m using its OPOS Driver (USBScanner is the OPOS Device name) on a Windows … Continue reading →

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Get a Samsung SCX 4200 Working On Ubuntu 9.04

Posted on June 21, 2009 by dale

I have a Samsung SCX-4200 Printer/Scanner it works rather nicely and I like it alot, even though I don’t use it often. Tonight I plugged it into my Ubunut machine and it printed first time, with no setups. Unfortunately the … Continue reading →

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Disk Latency from Shouting

Posted on January 24, 2009 by dale

Some guys from the Fishworks project over at Sun discovered something rather interesting, that shouting at a disk array while the array is in use can cause latency on the disks. This does actually make sense as any vibrations can … Continue reading →

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Website for picking Servers

Posted on January 16, 2009 by dale

I’ve been tasked with the job of finding a new server for a client, normally I love this kind of job but today its really not going particularly well. The problem? I know what the client wants/needs but explaining that … Continue reading →

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The worlds a Twitter…

Posted on December 12, 2008 by dale

I’ve finally given in and gotten a twitter account (dale_nunns). I’m not entirely sure how it all works or what I’m supposed to do with it, but it sounded cool, looked cool and is something new to play with. The final … Continue reading →

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